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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1929
Page
4
Snippet lists office address 1 Liberty Street Marlboro Massachusetts and distribution notes. Mentions second class matter status revised in 1903 and post office designation under 1879 act. Provides old pricing figures and neighboring towns served including Maynard Concord Sudbury Acton Bedford.
Edward W Martel died at his Fair Road home after a long illness. A Requiem Mass was held at St Bernard church. Born in Roxbury on June 26, 1859, he moved to Concord as a young man and became a successful farmer. He and Mary J Hagerty married. survived by three sons Charles B of Quincy Edward W of Framingham and Mary A of Concord, two sisters Miss Gertrude Martell of Concord and Mrs Everett H bof Milwaukee, and a brother Blixera D Martel of Ayer. The Concord Garden Club hosts a talk this afternoon with speaker McGregor Jenkins of Atlantic Monthly.
West Concord West Concord Branch WCTU meets this afternoon in the church parlors of the West Concord Union church. Lady Help of Christians Court Catholic Daughters of America will elect officers tonight in Odd Fellows hall.
The Concord Town Team and Maynard face off in a decisive baseball game at the Percy A Rideout Playground West Concord on Sunday October 6 at 2 45 PM. Concord catcher Bob Asborjornsen from the Red Sox and Pittsfield will play, with Dick Loftus in the outfield and other famous local stars in the lineup. The two teams split the series at two games apiece and the outcome hinges on this big matchup.
Rev. William J. Batt participated in 200th anniversary events for Bedford town incorporation and for the First Congregational church at Stoteham. He served as minister in Bedford to 1861 and later became pastor at Stoteham in 1876, noting a half century since prior celebrations.
Trinity Church Concord Mass presents a Sunday program with Rev Smith Dexter as rector. The day features Holy Communion and address at 9 am, Church school at 10 am, followed by Holy Communion and sermon at 11 am.
The American Legion James J Mansfield Post met in Veterans Building with Commander Herbert Buttrick Hosmer presiding. Members spent most of the time outlining plans for the coming season. The next post meeting is set for Thursday October 31. Edward B Caiger relocated from 4 Lowell Road to 18 Hubbard Street.
The Sunday Lesson Sermon for October 6 1929 centers on unreality from Zephaniah and Mary Baker Eddy. Citations from the Bible and Science and Health emphasize sin as escapable by living in God and rejecting evil.
Concord Academy began another academic year with 145 day and boarding pupils. Four new faculty hires include Grace Cowling Oxford graduate for Latin, Rosamund Cross Bryn Mawr for history, Katherine Wallace Sargent as sports assistant, and Helen Reese Wheaton as second grade assistant. A new $35,000 gymnasium is under construction and due by Thanksgiving Day, featuring a basketball court and a stage for drama, plus a physical director’s office.
Dr James Goodwin's setter Myxwyn won the derby at the Kagex field Trial Club's second annual trials in Wenham on Saturday. Myxwyn has earned eight prizes, including the Hookset derby in 1928, and is not yet two years old.
Rev. George Loring Thurlow preaches at Trinity Congregational Church on Sunday about Shall We Take Our Religion in War nest. Elmer B Mode sings. Miss Marguerite L Barnes plays piano. Young People's Club meets at Peter Bulkeley on Sunday evening. Local schools gain staffing updates and a Cornwall on the Hudson prep school adds Gey E. Moulton to teach French. Mrs. Moulton and her daughters visit Hubbard Street.
Miss Ahna M Goulding and Miss Dorothea M Loughlin were chorus members at Jackson College’s Jumbo Pantomime in the Jackson gymnasium last Tuesday. The act presented the life history of the elephants figure from P T Barnum's circus, ending with his tragic railroad death, as Tufts College mascot.
Middlesex School began football practice as school reopened. About 35 players, including captain Andrew Werk Cook of Cincinnati and veterans Bill Cudahy Richard Shreve Peter Junkin Lowell Dillingham, return. Robert F Foster leads the team with Davis and Trumbull assisting. Hugo de Fritsch manages the squad which schedules five games three at home starting with Mechanic Arts High of Concord next Saturday.
Forty one girls compete in the Concord High School girls tennis tournament at Emerson playground courts. Wiss Kuta HK, newly appointed physical director of girls, names Elizabeth Cook as manager for the event. The Concord girls team members are barred from competing in the tournament. In Trinity Parish, Mrs Herpert Bb. Smith presided over a Wednesday parish house meeting with plans for the November call discussed.
Miss Virginia Lee of C H S 726 has begun her sophomore year at Boston University.
Division 56 of the Ancient Order of Hipernians met at Monument hall on Tuesday evening and voted to hold a second Irish Night in October. A committee including James Powers, Owen McPhillips, James Byrne, Daniel Hennessy, Patrick Hanlon, and Thomas Flanigan was appointed to organize the event.
Middlesex School opened its fall term Wednesday with 168 boys enrolled. New instructors include Walter Gierasch and Ralph Durkee, both Harvard graduates, joining returning Senior Master W. Harold Taylor and math and baseball coach Wendell Phillips Raymond after a sabbatical year.
R C Piper edged to a 31 net to win the club championship. Weiss Sianonara and VanRorin W Comins tied for second with 32 nets. No best gross score for the nine holes. consolation and second division rounds decided titles. Burleigh L Pratt beat UUs Whitney 6 and 4 for consolation. Danforth W Comins defeated Hubert M Wardwell Jr 6 and 3 for the championship in the second division.
Miss Jean Lamont Proctor was introduced to society at a tea by her parents Mr and Mrs George Proctor at the voncura Country Club on Wednesday. A small informal dance followed at the same clubhouse with dinner prelude hosted by Mr and Mrs Proctor for the debutantes and their chaperones.
At the Lake High School Athletic Association meeting in Eaton Hall Robert Bygrave was elected president for the coming year Margaret Williams named vice president John Haggerty secretary W Edward Lamb treasurer Dorothy Petersen assistant treasurer Mary Dalton Philip Dee and Franklin Prescott named to the board Miss Mary Dalton and Miss Elizabeth Rudd chosen cheer leaders Edward Sheehan named manager of the 1930 base team with James Lennon as assistant. The football team manager is Robert Bygrave with William Rudd as assistant.
Arlington High and Concord High battled to a 7 to 7 tie in a football game at Arlington. Adams scored for Arlington and McGrath returned a kickoff for a 43 yard Concord TD before Cunningham added the extra point. Connors then rushed in for the PAT as time ran out in the fourth.
Concord leads the Massachusetts Skeet Shooting Association standings after a rain‑shortened weekend, scoring 225 of 260 amid strong showings from Everett Wellesley Woburn Needham and Saxonville. The league has nine clubs with post season potential across Louisiana Maine Texas New Jersey and Bay State teams, though conditions may delay final results beyond hunting season.
Middlesex School shut out Mechanics Arts High School of Boston 25 to 0 in Concord onSaturday. Dolittle the Middlesex quarterback intercepted a forward pass and returned 60 yards setting up the first touchdown by Nacey. Nacey scored again in the third as Middlesex pulled away.
The Sunday school of the First Parish in Concord met in the meeting house for a Fall season session on Sunday morning.
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